A fleet of balloon robots has been launched to capture high-resolution aerial images of the US. Near Space Labs, a US-based startup, aims to use these stratospheric robots to monitor and assess ...

France is leaning hard into near space, warning the area is increasingly contested, as evidenced by the Chinese spy ballon ...

Autonomous balloons high in Earth’s atmosphere are taking incredibly detailed photos of neighbourhoods and individual homes in 28 US states, and from January 2025, they will be able to ...

A Microballoon launch takes ~10 minutes, making this system a rapidly deployable, low-cost option to capture high-resolution, broad-area imagery. Courtesy Urban Sky This August, strange balloons ...

Starlink has been making tremendous progress towards providing world-wide access to broadband Internet access, but there are a number of downsides to satellite-based internet such as the cluttering… ...

Based around the SAMD21G18A microcontroller, it’s designed to run on a single AA battery, which should last for anywhere from 10-17 hours. ... High altitude balloon on HaD!

Those balloons reaching high altitudes ... we have done flights out past 150 days in duration with a single balloon now. And with Loon, our record by the end was 320 days.

On Feb. 4, a U.S. military jet shot down a Chinese balloon off the South Carolina coast, and Navy divers in the Atlantic have salvaged some of the apparatus that had been sailing over America’s ...

Superconducting single-photon detectors get sub-millikelvin temperature resolution. Science China Press. Journal National Science Review DOI 10.1093/nsr/nwae319 ...

China's spy balloon sought to intercept communications, U.S. officials say 02:22. After the House unanimously passed a resolution condemning China over its surveillance balloon, Beijing responded ...